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Without a wetting incident, either of gusset, bestockinged legs or, er, fingers (since presumably one has to utilise them to deal with said gusset)?
Because I got my (spanking new) Spanx today and am mystified.
It all seems a bit unsavoury. Though granted, preferable to taking them off. And on again. If they hadn't have been the right size, I shudder to think what might have happened (I did try them on in the hallway and various delivery men were due this morning).
Am needing to understand this more fully as was contemplating a pair but want to be fully briefed, so to speak . Had never thought about the logistics of this.
I have spanx but have never even considered using the wee hole. They're not that bad to get off and on, and the fallout of a hole-weeing incident gone wrong doesn't bear thinking about.
Betty [genius] - yes! They do actually have piss flaps!
I got 'em on. Though, MP, I have to say, what with my VERY dodgy stomach and the, well, hosiery-like nature of the Spanx, it did look rather like a really bad, shallow-end-of-the-gene-pool armed robbery for a while. There was quite a lot of folding and tucking in the stomach area. I still looked pregnant, but an altogether smoother pregnant. [Am not BTW]
The thing is, you really CAN't get them off. Well, not in the time it takes you to just be able to hold in your post-baby wee. And if you then wanted to put them back on again, you'd be ready for the carriages at midnight before you got out of the ladies again.
Sorry, I know this is very rude to carry on discussing this on another's thread, but I am guessing you are quite short then? 3 of my babies were just shy of that weight and I never looked like that! I just can't get over it. Sorry!
Yep, I love them but (sorry if tmi) I have to lean forward whilst I pee otherwise I do dribble a little. but don't need hands involved.. perhaps a little practice
I am glad you like them.. I would go on an advert (as long as they didn't try to do a before and after shot)
I looked like that too MP (Snoopy's Nose we always called it.) No.3 boy was pretty much around my knees (hence armed robber's face for stomach in Spanx)
Try getting out of them if you are pissed - I ended up with watering eyes, having caught my pubes in the roll-up. Took them off in the toilet at DH's works Xmas do, and went commando for the rest of the night.
LOL that is exactly what it looks like (DG took yet another mouth wide open look at MP's profile - I am feeling like a teenage boy here!) But giant tit is good description.
Oh for goodness sake. Put them opn in privacy of bathroom (for event only) Put nice clothes on top (smoothing silhouette) Eat drink, and be merry Go home Whisper in DH's ear 'I am not wearing any knickers' Run to bathroom to remove and hide in laundry basket Get it on
No worries about DH ever finding them - has not been near washign machine in 15 years!
Aren't they just the modern equivalent of the 18 hr girdle which my Gran used to wear ( as a child I used to wonder what would happen if you wore it for longer than 18hrs -thought that you might spontaneously combust or something).
Well, MP i'm usually victim of extra VPLs all over with these 'hold it all in' pants. But these really didn't. I got the ones that go down your thigh and right up to your bra though [mmm sexy]
I am q tall, and when drunk only used to manage to pop 2 out of 3 poppers, then they would twang up and smack me in the face as I staggered back to bar.
Echoes of my mother saying, you could take someon'e eye out with that
they are truly the business mp. you must make sure to get the ones that come up to your tits and down to mid thigh (with convenient vent, see above).... there is nowhere for the excess to go, 'tis all just sort of compressed. fab.
It would have to to be a wide-mouthed funnel too, otherwise in the case of a Very Full Bladder there could easily be an unfortunate overflowing incident.
Noooo, they always left you on a knife edge waiting for the poppers to pop at the wrong moment and for your gusset to suddenly fly into view above your trousers. But then, when you needed a quick release because you were desperate for the loo, you would find the poppers were suddenly non detatchable and would end up with wee on your hands. And then there were the fancy ones that came not with poppers but with proper buttons..... memories of trapped pubes haunt me still.
They are a bugger to get on and off-I haven't worn mine for ages but they were good for giving a smoother shape under a clingyish dress about 6m after dd1.I had a wedding to go to and felt too podgy to just do the control top tights thing.I had the high waisted ones with little legs-high waisted is better for post-natal as they don't give you that roll at the top.I think I held the "gusset doors" open with two hands to wee!It was fine,no urine spillage.Preferable to wrestling them off anyway.The other makes that have poppers are even more annoying as they pop undone or worse partially undone leaving you astride a string like section of gusset . not pleasant.
I have the ones that go from under bra to just above knee - they are v impressive and there is no flub over the top that I got with regular control pants (where the flub goes, I know not). Have not attempted using wee hole, I just thrash about in the loo cubicle until I get them off. If I am drunk, the thrashing progresses to whirling and cannoning off the walls, but it is still worth it to be flub-free and not smelling of urine.
OK- let me get this right: there's NO over flow above the waistband or below the thigh with Spanx? Any other control-type knicks I've worn jut redistribute flab so i get fat back instead of wobbly tummy... I'm a size 12-14 bottom but 16-18 on top and really need to push the flab down!
pofaced, thing is, they're kind of head to toe stylee... well bra strap to knee
where the flab goes? As I said before, all kind of squashed back in between your separated stomach muscles and in on itself and all kinds of horrid armed robber faces appear in your stretchmarks.
I tried the pissing whilst wearing spanx this weekend. I was sober and the piss still splashed everywhere. I had to hold the openings and then use my hands as protection either side to stop it going down my legs, is that TMI yet? I have WAY more info than that but fear my vodka fuzz may be lulling me into a false sense of what is acceptable to share
i am still recovering from ahving a joint shower on sat am stasrted feeling really faint was too embarrassed to say and hoped it would pass realised i was going to go got out of the shower and onto the landing and couldnt find my bedroom or work out where i was and saw lots of stars managed somehow to end up on my bed
Why would anyone wear these things? Really, WHY? they sound hideously uncomfortable and they cost far more than I would ever dream of paying for knickers. And I would imagine that regular wearers get regular bouts of thrush and cystitis as well.
Well, there's 10 minutes of unadulterated laughter (including choking on a mouthful of wine and spraying it all over the screen). Thank you.
I have some. I have the bra-to-thighs edition which I wear at Important Events when I need to look slightly less like a pregnant elephant (am not pregnant, and last I checked, don't have four knees so am not an elephant either IRL). I adopt RubyRioja's approach - wear them sneakily, then whip them off as soon as I get home...
And I can manage to wee without getting it all over them. So there.
OK, I was asked to share twice and that is enough for me, when vodka has been imbibed...I had cause to piss quite a few times throughout the spanx wearing day <<bladder like a peanut>> When I removed them for washing, the gusset edge was trimmed with stains . One can only assume that I was having some 'spotting' which never normally affects me. I was unsure when I studied them, whether the stains were fanjo or shit related...then I remembered that I was sober and put it down to spotting. I did wonder whether the special fabric was unusually absorbant?? That TMI for you???
Monkeybird, were you there? I even scratched with my fingernail. I had a proper bewildered look whilst I perused whether the gusset part could be some kind of special fabric not present in Asda knickers.
MB: Not in the least. 43 years old and size 16, but just not prepared to wear anything that uncomfortable (did wear various uncomfy things in younger days, can't even wear heels any more now).
I can't believe that you don't get the fat at the knees bulging out...all the things that I've tried that stop above the knees do this, so how come these don't?!!! or do they
I wear the M&S trouser tights when wearing trousers for a rare night out and they are fab too! smoooothe lines.......
Think it's time to diet and lose some of this flab. I weigh the same, but I seem to be fatter. How does that work?!
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